Problem with a specific question type VR

[theA1doctor]

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Questions that go something like this
"Which of the following is best supported by the passage" or "Based on the passage it is reasonable to assume".

Please dont confuse it with "which of the following is directly supported by the passage"

as the former is not really in the passage you have to make assumption to get it correct by the use of tone and bottom line

Princeton Review refers to these as specific inference. These are my only problem as I get them correct only 50 percent of the time

Any help?

 

[shaboobly]

seems to me you don't understand the point of the passage. remember that some answers could be considered right, but it may not be the best answer which is what you want. understand the author's conclusion and the implications from it.

this is the best description on how i answer these types of questions. i recently started scoring 2 pts higher than i previously was in verbal and i think a lot has to do with mentally being aware of what i am reading and not just glazing over it and thinking about something else while reading; i use to think about what i just previously read and it really made me lose track of everything. the way i attack the passage now is read it paragraph by paragraph and understand what's in each (i dont stop or anything after i finish reading a paragraph or the entire passage, i just move on to the questions in order). hope this helps a little with your verbal as i believe this is the trickiest section.

 

[tima]

These are questions where you need to infer what the author is trying to imply. For example, the passage might be on how the author feels about issue A, and the question might ask how the author would respond to issue B. But, you need to know how the author feels and use his logic.

Try to understand why he is writing this passage, what's the overall message, what things he would support/not support, what's the purpose of each paragraph, etc. Each paragraph has its purpose? What is the purpose of paragraph 2? Does't it support the overall argument or not?